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Mary Robinette Kowal
About this listen
This program is read by author and narrator Mary Robinette Kowal, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night.
Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven't revealed any cause.
When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same—have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps.
Until one night Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she’s walked over 40,000 steps in the night . . .
What is happening when she’s asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won’t anyone believe her?
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.
©2024 Hildur Knutsdottir (P)2024 Macmillan AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
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Eighty-one-year-old widow Maggie Burkhardt came to the Royal Karnak to escape. But not in quite the same way as most other guests who are relaxing at this hotel on the banks of the Nile. Maggie, a compulsive fixer of other people’s lives, may have found herself in hot water at her last hotel in Switzerland and just might have needed to get out of there fast. But here at the Royal Karnak, under the hot Saharan sun, she has a comfortable suite, a loyal confidante in the hotel manager, Ahmed, and a handful of sympathetic friends. One morning, however, Maggie notices a new arrival at check-in.
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Well written but not for animal lovers
- By Erin G on 01-11-25
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Smoke Kings
- A Novel
- By: Jahmal Mayfield
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Smoke Kings is a powerful and propulsive novel with a diverse and unforgettable cast of characters. Like Steph Cha's Your House Will Pay it explores decades of racial tensions through a fictional landscape where the line between justice and revenge is blurred.
By: Jahmal Mayfield
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My Darling Dreadful Thing
- A Novel
- By: Johanna van Veen
- Narrated by: Jess Nesling
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.
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Holds Out Until the Last Minute
- By Andy on 12-19-24
By: Johanna van Veen
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By Way of Sorrow
- By: Robyn Gigl
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Erin McCabe has been referred the biggest case of her career. Four months ago, William E. Townsend, Jr., son of a New Jersey state senator, was found fatally stabbed in a rundown motel near Atlantic City. Sharise Barnes, a 19-year-old transgender prostitute, is in custody, and given the evidence against her, there seems little doubt of a guilty verdict. Erin knows that defending Sharise will blow her own private life wide open, and doubtless deepen her estrangement from her family. Yet as a trans woman, she feels uniquely qualified to help Sharise.
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Excellent book!
- By adair look on 04-23-25
By: Robyn Gigl
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Daphne
- A Novel
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. The last summer before her life begins. But the night before the big game, one of the players tells a ghost story about Daphne, a girl who went to their school many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances. Some say she was murdered, others that she died by her own hand. And some say that Daphne is a murderer herself.
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Should have been a short story.
- By Drummerlp2000 on 09-23-22
By: Josh Malerman
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Rough Trade
- A Novel
- By: Katrina Carrasco
- Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad, and with a buyers' market funneling product their way, Alma Rosales and her opium-smuggling crew are making a fortune. They spend their days moving product and their nights at the Monte Carlo, the center of Tacoma's queer scene, where skirts and trousers don't signify and everyone's free to suit themselves.
By: Katrina Carrasco
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Midnight on Beacon Street
- A Novel
- By: Emily Ruth Verona
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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When single mom Eleanor Mazinski goes out a for a much-needed date night, she leaves her two young children—sweet, innocent six-year-old Ben and precocious, defiant twelve-year-old Mira—in the capable hands of their sitter, Amy. The quiet seventeen-year-old is good at looking after children, despite her anxiety disorder. She also loves movies, especially horror flicks. Amy likes their predictability; it calms the panic that threatens to overwhelm her.
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Unsure what I did/didn't like
- By Kyle on 10-14-24
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Whalefall
- A Novel
- By: Daniel Kraus
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad’s death by suicide the previous year.
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Thin and mislabeled
- By S7EW on 09-04-23
By: Daniel Kraus
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The Novices of Lerna
- By: Angel Bonomini, Jordan Landsman - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramon Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland.
By: Angel Bonomini, and others
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The Savage Kind
- By: John Copenhaver
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton, Robin Miles, Jeanette Illidge
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled 17-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She’s lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher, who enthralls them with her passion for literature and her love of noirish detective fiction. When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows.
By: John Copenhaver
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Victorian Psycho
- By: Virginia Feito
- Narrated by: Anna Burnett
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze.
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meh
- By Pamela Y. S. on 02-13-25
By: Virginia Feito
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They Were Here Before Us
- A Novella in Pieces
- By: Eric LaRocca
- Narrated by: Kai Rubio
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were Here Before Us, a novella written in pieces, designed to be consumed as a single cohesive work. The only thing more brutal than nature is love.
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Classic Eric LaRocca!
- By Ski Bear on 12-29-23
By: Eric LaRocca
Interesting & creepy
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Excellent writing to maintain tension
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kept me listening
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Good writing, disappointing ending
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Great premise but a head scratcher
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I love the pacing! A tight story you can make it through in a very reasonable amount of time - which I love.
THE CAT STUFF FROM A CAT LOVER (A SUMMARY WITH NO SPOILERS)
Yes, the cat stuff you read about in other reviews is there but I personally wasn’t as disturbed by it because you will not be forced to listen to any acts while they are occurring - you are told about the after effects. In other words, you will not be lulled into a situation a sweet cat interaction that slowly or suddenly turns into cat torture. I was actually waiting for that to happen in this book and was relieved when it did not.
I have read and been forced to listen to much, much worse than what is revealed in this character’s story. In many instances I was unknowingly thrown into animal torture of the most horrific kind (I’m talking to you “The Troop!”) and I don’t appreciate it at all. I would be forced to quickly skip forward if listening or skip pages if reading. But in either situation the damage has already been done and I’m in it and have already seen/heard too much that will take me days to get over.
All this is to say I personally was not as affected by “the cat incident” and for someone that is somewhat sensitive to these things (I’m sure others are even more sensitive), I feel this was pretty tame-ish given what I have read and heard before in other books. I was certainly not pleased with it but it was fine. It is fiction after all so that’s how I can be okay with it in my mind. You get to decide for yourself how you feel.
A tight story, worth the listen.
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This author clearly went to the Tana French School of Loose Ends, where they firmly believe that the best way to end a story is to give the reader absolutely no closure. It feels like the author was writing this for a timed exam, and when the teacher said, “Pencils down!”, she hurled hers across the room, got up, and walked out.
2 stars for being mildly entertaining up to the last 25%, and 1 more star for wasting less than 3 hours of my life. Would not read anything else by this author.
Fun until it wasn’t
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Enthralling, Creepy, Poignant
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GREAT CONCEPT & has a lot of creepiness, lots of tension !!! Also is a very quick listen!
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Creepy and Disorienting
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